Presentation: "Conference Intro and Track Introduction"
Time: Monday 09:00 - 09:20
Location: Salon A, B, C, D
Abstract: Floyd Marinescu Introduces: Sadek Drobi, Chris Matts, Randy Shoup, Dionysios Synodinos, Khawaja Shams
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Chris Matts, Agile Business Analyst Oxymoron
Chris has spent the last twenty years being paid by investment banks. He has spent considerable time, thought and effort avoiding doing any real work. Despite his best efforts he has been involved with the start up of a number of Agile things, including real options, feature injection, behaviour driven development and the fight between the Kanban and Scrum communities. He prefers dogs to cats but would really like a Jerboa as a pet if it wasn't illegal.
Dio Synodinos, Research Platform Team Lead at C4Media
Dio Synodinos is the research platform team lead at C4Media and a freelance consultant, focusing on rich Internet applications, web application security, mobile web, and web services. He's also the lead editor for HTML5 and JavaScript for InfoQ, where he also regularly writes about the JVM platform. He's also the author of Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns by Apress and The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design by friendsofED. Going back and forth between server-side programming and UI design for more than a decade, he has been involved in diverse software projects and contributed to different technical publications. Floyd Marinescu, Father of InfoQ and QCon NY Program Committee Member
Floyd Marinescu is online community guru, co-founder & Chief Editor of InfoQ.com, and the QCon conferences.
http://www.infoq.com/about.jsp
InfoQ.com currently recently reached over 600,000 unique visitors/month, and is the 650th most influential site on the internet, according to technorati. Previously, Floyd Marinescu authored the book “EJB Design Patterns” in 2002 and “Domain-Driven Design Quickly” in 2005. Floyd also created TheServerSide.com, TheServerSide.Net, and TheServerSide Java Symposium conferences. Floyd managed TheServerSide.com between 2000-2005 in which time the site became the largest Java community in the world. Khawaja Shams, Manager, Data Services for Planning and Execution, NASA
Khawaja Shams is a member of the Operations Planning Software (OPS) Lab at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He manages the Data Services team in the Planning and Execution Section. Khawaja develops software that contributes to the operations of robotic assets including ground, airborne, and waterborne robots, as well as Mars rovers. He leads several software projects, and he serves as the Cognizant Engineer of server side components for the Activity Planning and Sequencing Subsystem (APSS) for the Mars Science Laboratory. Khawaja works closely with the Office of the CIO at JPL to co-lead the efforts to securely deliver the benefits of cloud computing to missions across NASA. He serves as an advisor on the CIO Technology Advisory Board (CTAB) at JPL. Khawaja obtained his bachelors in computer science from UC San Diego, and his Masters in Computer Science from Cornell. He is currently pursuing a PhD in robotics at USC. Nitin Bharti, Managing Editor and Product Manager, C4Media
Over the last decade, Nitin has helped build several notable online developer communities including TheServerSide.com, DZone, and The Code Project. He is known for his extensive editorial work in the Enterprise Java, .NET, SOA, and Agile communities. As Managing Editor and Product Manager at C4Media - the producer of InfoQ.com and QCon events - Nitin continues to pursue his primary passion: helping spread knowledge and innovation throughout the enterprise software development community. Randy Shoup, Google Cloud Computing
Randy is a 20-year veteran of Silicon Valley, with experience across real-time eCommerce systems, large-scale data analysis, and business intelligence. He gives regular presentations on distributed computing and infrastructure scaling at industry and academic conferences. Prior to Google, Randy was CTO and Co-Founder at Shopilly. Before that, Randy was Chief Engineer and Distinguished Architect at eBay, where he led architecture, design, and implementation of eBay's real-time search infrastructure. Earlier, he was Chief Architect and Technical Fellow at Tumbleweed Communications, developing messaging and email security systems for financial institutions and large enterprises. He has also held a variety of software development and architecture roles at Oracle and Informatica. Twitter: @randyshoup Sadek Drobi, CTO of Zenexity
Sadek Drobi, CTO of Zenexity, a software engineer specialized in design and implementation of enterprise applications with a particular focus on bridging the gap between the problem domain and the solution domain. As a core Play developer, he works on the design and implementation of the framework. twitter: @sadache blog: http://sadache.tumblr.com company: www.zenexity.com |
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